Handing the Self Back: Poems - Softcover

Fincke, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0961646748 ISBN 13: 9780961646745

Publisher: Greentower Pr, 1990

Synopsis

It's all here, from Einstein and Malthus to Bergen and McCarthy, from fields of interred remains of pets where our strange human love lives on, engraved in stone, to rain forests where butterflies beat their fragile wings to create the measured chaos of our lives. Gary Fincke sifts through the fossil record of the present, making high art from the objects and ideas that fill our seasons, and in so doing, this talented and articulate poet teaches us, touches us. - David Citino

About this title

About the Author

Gary Fincke lives with his wife Liz and three children in Selinsgrove, PA. The Pennsylvania Arts Council awarded him poetry fellowships in 1982 and 1985 and a fiction fellowship in 1987. He won the Gamut Fiction Prize in 1984 and his fiction has been selected by PEN Syndicated Fiction Awards.

Review

"'Handing the Self Back' by Gary Fincke contains fourteen poems; each one is interesting to the ear and to the mind. Fincke draws from a broad base of knowledge... and alludes to such diverse details of intellectual and popular culture as Thomas Malthus, Piltdown Man, Boy Scouts, The Bumblebee Theorum, and pet cemeteries. More importantly, he positions these allusions so as to illuminate the emotional life of his anti-heroic speaker...." -- Lynn Domina, New Letters

The Accidental Bomb Run
The Book Of Numbers
The Butterfly Effect
Calculus
Callback
The Congestive Failure Of Belief
Fossils
Handing The Self Back
Malthus Season
Moving
The Pet Cemetery
Throwing The Voice
Tube Time
The Unlikely Bluff Of Sight
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Greentower Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0961646748
• ISBN 13: 9780961646745
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 33